Sunday, June 03, 2007

Inquest verdicts: youth suicides lost
Psychiatric Bulletin (2007) 31: 203-205
http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/6/203?etoc
Helen Gosney ; Keith Hawton
"Aim: To investigate how much reliance on suicide verdicts underestimates probable suicides. All unnatural deaths of those 8-18 years of age in West Yorkshire during a 6-year period were identified from the death register. Deaths which had verdicts other than killed him- or herself and were not obviously accidental were reviewed by a panel of three consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists to determine whether they were probable suicides."
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